Stimpy makes his bazillionth boring-as-hell post, this time quoting some unnamed moonbat from Stanford on the Algore climate problem. Stanford, you may recall, is the only place on earth as wild-eyed crazy as Berkeley. Amazingly, they're only an hour's drive apart. Their proximity has apparently resulted in a critical mass of madness, with a subsequent meltdown of judgement.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-11-11 06:42 PM
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Is this year's heat weather or climate change?
I heard a scientist from Stanford University on the radio today. He and his colleagues are of the opinion that this heat is, in fact, climate change. They believe it to still be reversible, but not for much longer.
They predict that if we do nothing, the tropics will suffer the first permanent climate shift, wherein their coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers from years past. They think this can happen as soon as 20 years from now.
If nothing else happens, the same fate will hit the temperate latitudes by the last quarter of the century.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1279073 The climate change catastrophe is reversible, but only if all American businesses and the American way of life are shut down within the next few months. The jug-eared muslim has been trying his best, but American business has proven to be more resilient than expected.
And what's up with this "hotter summers in the tropics" business? I thought it was always hot in the tropics, where the seasons are just "dry" and
"wet". I spent a couple of weeks in Caracas one February (pre-Yugo), and it was hot as hell. Are glaciers melting there, too? I never watch Keef, The Munch, or the Algore channel, so I'm not up on this stuff.
JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-11-11 06:45 PM
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1. I'd say, the current heat is Weather.
The way the weather seems to be osculating more dramatically in recent years ... climate change.
Well, I suppose if the weather sucks you could say it osculates. These DUmmies come up with one beauty after another.
madmax (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-11-11 06:58 PM
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4. I must always use the term 'Climate Change'
when discussing this with mouth breathers because 'Global Warming' gives them a come back of yeah, that's why it snowed... blah blah <sigh>
Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-11-11 07:08 PM
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5. That's the thing about climate change.
We're still frantically trying to understand the CURRENT patterns WITHOUT taking into account the added heat caused by CO2 emissions.
If the Gulf Stream stops, it may plunge Northern Europe into a cold period. But then, it may also cause heat spells and droughts in the southern US. UNLESS it affects the El Nino/La Nina systems. Then it's anybody's guess.
One thing's for sure. Extreme weather effects are going to be the NORM, not the exception. Just look at Australia. Floods, droughts and fires like they've never seen.
It'll be here soon enough.
I thought after the jug-eared messiah was elected, we wouldn't have floods or droughts anymore, and we'd only have fires for s'mores.
The main reason I noticed this thread:
grasswire (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-11-11 07:10 PM
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6. the alternative press in Portland has an article warning of an influx...
...of "climate refugees" who will seek out the more temperate Pacific Northwest soon, and begging for local leaders to begin planning for such a population shift from those who now live in the areas that will suffer severe drought and extremes. I'm not gonna like having millions more Californians edging north.
The "alternative press" would be those papers the panhandlers try to peddle when you're waiting at a stoplight. They have all the good news, I guess. Never had one in my hands.
But the main thing is, here's DUmmy grasswire talking again about being in freaking Oregon! No Wisconsin pie shop / weed emporium! She did say her former friend wanted her ass out of his bonus room up there on that Wisconsin farmette, then not another word. Lots of excitement about the pie shop / head shop though, recipes being worked on, concern for diabetic potheads, etc., etc. Now here is at least the second reference to being in Oregon.
I think DUmmy grasswire owes us an explanation. Poor, stupid Beth finally let us know she's trying to avoid foreclosure on the camper, with some illegal Mexicans filling in the ravines washed through the trail back to the county gravel road. Now we need an update from DUmmy grasswire. Where is she freeloading this time? Will a pie shop work in Oregon, considering that weed is far more easily available than in rural Wisconsin? After all, if DUmmy grasswire is now in Oregon, she's practically a next door neighbor to Humboldt County, the weed capital of the Northern Hemisphere. Pie may not be as attractive there.